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- January 1994 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
Aberlyn Capital Management: July 1993
By: Josh Lerner and Peter Tufano
Aberlyn Capital Management, a venture leasing firm specializing in providing capital to biotechnology firms, proposes to introduce a new product. Aberlyn will base a lease on an intangible product: the patent of a biotechnology firm. This poses a series of short and... View Details
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Valuation; Product Launch; Problems and Challenges; Patents; Financial Instruments; Financial Services Industry; Biotechnology Industry
Lerner, Josh, and Peter Tufano. "Aberlyn Capital Management: July 1993." Harvard Business School Case 294-083, January 1994. (Revised November 1997.)
- August 2021 (Revised August 2021)
- Supplement
CPE and SUS Environmental: You’ve Got to Know When to Hold ‘Em (B)
By: Josh Lerner and Franko Jira
Lerner, Josh, and Franko Jira. "CPE and SUS Environmental: You’ve Got to Know When to Hold ‘Em (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 822-010, August 2021. (Revised August 2021.)
- June 2022
- Article
The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond
By: Josh Lerner and Amit Seru
Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovation increasingly used in financial economics (and management research more broadly). Biases may result, however, from the interactions between the truncation of patents and citations and the changing... View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Amit Seru. "The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond." Review of Financial Studies 35, no. 6 (June 2022): 2667–2704.
- June 1998
- Article
Stronger Protection or Technological Revolution: What is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting?
By: Josh Lerner and Samuel Kortum
Lerner, Josh, and Samuel Kortum. "Stronger Protection or Technological Revolution: What is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting?" Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 49 (June 1998). (Abridged version reprinted as "What is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting?" in Research Policy 28 (January 1999): 1-22.)
- February 2017
- Teaching Note
Sin Capital and the Fullerton Health IPO
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-030. View Details
- October 2013
- Case
Bay Partners (B) (Abridged)
By: Josh Lerner and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Abridged supplement for case 213102, for instructors who wish to have students review in class. View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Bay Partners (B) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 214-042, October 2013.
- May 2011 (Revised May 2011)
- Background Note
A Note on European Private Equity
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
This note provides an overview of private equity in Europe as of mid-2010. View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Ann Leamon. "A Note on European Private Equity." Harvard Business School Background Note 811-103, May 2011. (Revised May 2011.)
- October 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Hony, CIFA, and Zoomlion: Creating Value and Strategic Choices in a Dynamic Market
By: Josh Lerner and Yiwen Jin
The private equity group Hony Capital considers what to do with their investment in Zoomlion, which has been successful to date. The question is whether to take their money off the table or to invest in their acquisition of a large Italian competitor. View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Investment; Emerging Markets; Financial Services Industry; China
Lerner, Josh, and Yiwen Jin. "Hony, CIFA, and Zoomlion: Creating Value and Strategic Choices in a Dynamic Market." Harvard Business School Case 811-032, October 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
- Article
The Performance of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
By: Josh Lerner and Jerry Cao
Lerner, Josh, and Jerry Cao. "The Performance of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts." Journal of Financial Economics 91, no. 2 (February 2009): 139–157. (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 12626.)
- April 2007
- Supplement
OuterLink Corporation (B)
By: Josh Lerner and Brenda Chia
Lerner, Josh, and Brenda Chia. "OuterLink Corporation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 807-158, April 2007.
- April 1999
- Article
Conflict of Interest in the Issuance of Public Securities: Evidence from Venture Capital
By: Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
Gompers, Paul, and Josh Lerner. "Conflict of Interest in the Issuance of Public Securities: Evidence from Venture Capital." Journal of Law & Economics 42, Part 1, no. 1 (April 1999): 1–28.
- February 2000
- Article
Money Chasing Deals?: The Impact of Fund Inflows on the Valuation of Private Equity Investments
By: Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
Gompers, Paul, and Josh Lerner. "Money Chasing Deals?: The Impact of Fund Inflows on the Valuation of Private Equity Investments." Journal of Financial Economics 55, no. 2 (February 2000): 281–325.
- Article
The Scope of Open Source Licensing
By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
Keywords: Technology
Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole. "The Scope of Open Source Licensing." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 21, no. 1 (April 2005): 20–56. (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 9363.)
- spring 2001
- Article
The Patent System and Innovation
By: Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner
Jaffe, Adam, and Josh Lerner. "The Patent System and Innovation." RAND Journal of Economics 32, no. 1 (spring 2001): 167–199.
- spring 2001
- Article
Reinventing Public R&D: Patent Law and Technology Transfer from Federal Laboratories
By: Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner
Jaffe, Adam, and Josh Lerner. "Reinventing Public R&D: Patent Law and Technology Transfer from Federal Laboratories." RAND Journal of Economics 32, no. 1 (spring 2001): 167–198.
- July 2017
- Article
Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China
By: Lily Fang, Josh Lerner and Chaopeng Wu
Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects innovation in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Privatization; State Ownership; Trademarks; Copyright; Innovation and Invention; China
Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, and Chaopeng Wu. "Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China." Review of Financial Studies 30, no. 7 (July 2017): 2446–2477.
- 2013
- Working Paper
Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing
By: Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all private equity investments. Their market share is highest during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to... View Details
Fang, Lily, Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner. "Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19300, August 2013.
- February 2013
- Article
Digitization, Innovation, and Copyright: What Is the Agenda?
By: Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
This essay discusses the need for research on the consequences of digitization, as well as the impact of alternative policies governing the creation and use of digital information. This agenda focuses on the development of research to investigate the economics of... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Research; Copyright; Information Management; Innovation and Invention
Greenstein, Shane, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern. "Digitization, Innovation, and Copyright: What Is the Agenda?" Strategic Organization 11, no. 1 (February 2013): 110–121.
- March 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
The Blackstone Group's IPO
By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Steven Schwarzman, Chairman of the Blackstone Group, has just learned that an investment group associated with the government of China wants to buy the majority of Blackstone's leveraged IPO. As he considers how to respond to this offer, Schwarzman reviews the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Ownership Stake; Business and Stakeholder Relations
Hardymon, Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "The Blackstone Group's IPO." Harvard Business School Case 808-100, March 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- February 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum
By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Tad O'Malley has just started as an associate with Empire Investment Group. He must evaluate three investment opportunities facing the big leveraged buyout firm. All are global, but each pertains to different offices and each deal has different strengths and... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Investment; Strength and Weakness; Negotiation Deal; Personal Development and Career
Hardymon, Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum." Harvard Business School Case 808-125, February 2008. (Revised May 2008.)